Living Blue Planet Report

Living Blue Planet Report Species, habitats and human well-being ITN 2015 REPORT ...

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CONTENTS Foreword page INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: THE STATE OF OUR BLUE PLANET The marine Living Planet Index Fish Other species ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 2 NEARLY 3 BILLION PEOPLE RELY ON FISH AS A MAJOR SOURCE OF PROTEIN. OVERALL, FISHERIES AND AQUAC ...

Foreword page 3 OUR LIVING BLUE PLANET Our ocean – that seemingly infinitely bountiful, ever awe-inspiring blue that defines our ...

CHAPTER ONE: THE STATE OF OUR BLUE PLANET On Mali Island in Fiji, Alumita Camari expertly handles a freshly caught live (and agg ...

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Living Blue Planet Report page 6 The marine Living Planet Index 0 1 2 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2012 Index value ( ...

Chapter 1: The state of our blue planet page 7 0 1 2 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Index value (1970=1) Year Figure 2: The utilized f ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 8 Other species trends Figure 4: Threatened marine species, as chronicled by the IUCN Red List. T ...

Chapter 1: The state of our blue planet page 9 Figure 5: Global sea cucumber harvest, based on FAO data (Purcell et al., 2013). ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 10 2% 47% 23% 13% 11% 4% Figure 6: Shark and ray species at risk of extinction: an additional 7 p ...

Turtle illustrations adapted from Conservation International/Cesar Landazabal Chapter 1: The state of our blue planet page 11 1 ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 12 Habitats While human exploitation is identified as the major cause of the declines in marine s ...

Chapter 1: The state of our blue planet page 13 Figure 8: Percentage change in coral cover over time in the Indo- Pacific (blue) ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 14 Figure 10: Net area of seagrass gain and loss per decade in study sites^ (Waycott et al., 2009 ...

Chapter 1: The state of our blue planet page 15 0 1 2 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 Index value (1970=1) Year Figure 11: The index fo ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 16 Figure 12: Estimated change in extent of mangrove cover by region and worldwide from 1980 to 2 ...

Chapter 1: The state of our blue planet page 17 Mangroves provide spawning grounds and nurseries for fish, protect coastlines an ...

Living Blue Planet Report page 18 Deep-sea habitats: North Atlantic Ocean Important marine ecosystems are not confined to the tr ...